Lara
Elbaz
Lara Elbaz is an Independent Lighting Designer. She graduated in Interior Design at the Escuela de Artes Decorativas, in Madrid with further education in Lighting Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED). She works exclusively in the field of Architectural Lighting since 1995.
During the first decade of her professional life, she worked at Philips Lighting Spain, acquiring a solid technical background as well as business and marketing experience. She consolidated her Lighting Design skills while collaborating with the Spanish lighting design consultancy, Architectural Lighting Solutions (ALS), where she participated in internationally recognized projects.
In 2009 she started her own studio, Lara Elbaz Lighting Design where she combined lighting design for architectural applications with intense educational activity, participating in international workshops and conferences and teaching Lighting Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED Madrid) where she directed the Lighting Design Master course from 2010 to 2020.
She also participates in the Lighting Design Master course at the Universidad politécnica de Barcelona (UPC) since 2011.In 2019 she co-founded ELBAZGILDEMONTES Lighting Design with MarÃa Gildemontes, a company that aims at designing sustainable lighting projects sensible to architecture, emotions, health, and the environment.
She is a Senior Professional Member of APDI (Spanish Lighting Designers Association) where she currently holds the position of President of the Board of Directors.